WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A large, fertile plain encompassing most of northern and eastern India, where the Indo-Aryans migrated.

Detailed explanation-2: -How was it possible for the Aryans to spread their influence over the Indus and Ganges river valleys so successfully? The Aryans’ horse-drawn chariots scared the local people and helped Aryans gain power.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aryans came to India from Central Asia. By 1500 BCE the Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent. Coming from central Asia, this large group of nomadic cattle herders crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and came in contact with the Indus Valley Civilization.

Detailed explanation-4: -The land of the Indus and its principal tributaries is the land of the Seven Rivers (Sapta Sindhu) where the initial Aryan settlement were located.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.